Per the article, Dave Doeren from NIU might get a look, and for some reason, the "Tressel to all schools" came up at the end of this piece. Doeren would be interesting and this would be a "next level" job for him - he was the DC at Wisconsin and has led NIU to two straight 11-win seasons.

"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."

In their division Purdue finished a game behind Wisconsin and well back of Penn State and Ohio State. They lost by 3 at ND and took OSU to OT in Columbus.

This seems like a change for change's sake at a middle of the pack program. College football is a zero sum game (win or lose) and somebody has to finish in the middle of the standings. I don't see a coach making them better than the programs above them without finding the next Drew Brees, and that will be no easy task.

But you have to keep in mind, the coach before Hope - Joe Tiller - was much more successful, and not just when Brees was there. Tiller went 87-62 at Purdue and 53-43 in league play. Hope went 21-27 and 12-19, respectively. Their goal is obviously to find another Tiller. Hope seemed unlikely to be that guy.

I'm definitely not a Danny Hope fan, so I can see them wanting to go in another direction. I just think it is unlikely that they find another Tiller. He brought an offense nobody had really seen before, especially in the Big Ten (those first few games they played against ND were comical with the Irish having no idea how to defend bubble screens then getting burned over the top). And there isn't a lot of room to jump up in the standings except when PSU begins to feel the sanctions. Michigan, OSU, Wisconsin, MSU, and Nebraska are all stronger now and have more institutional advantages. They are already ahead of Iowa (could easily slip behind them), Illinois, and Indiana. On the recruiting trail, I think Pat Fitzgerald selling Northwestern academics probably has more to offer than new guy at Purdue, especially when you consider who they could actually get to take the job.

If they think that there is a guy out there who can make them much better than this is a good move, but otherwise you have a middle-of-the-road program suffering through middle-of-the-road seasons. Recruiting will never be great at Purdue, and unless you can catch lightning in a bottle like Tiller and catch the conference off-guard offensively, I have a hard time seeing the next guy being much better.

After he was such an a-hole to Richrod, I was thoroughly enjoying us beating Purdue down under Danny Hope's leadership and now it will just be some poor guy instead of Danny Hope which will make it much less enjoyable

Normally I wouldn't celebrate a man losing his job, but after the way this asshat acted at the end of the '09 game and his incessant negative recruiting against Rich Rod, I'll make an exception. Good riddance, you piece of shit.